Another crowd-pleasing Feast of Tabernacles song, this ominously zionist hymn sounded even more impressive, when you knew that it was being sung simultaneously, by a hundred and fifty thousand of your compatriots.
The Lord, Eternal is most great and greatly to be praised!
Within the city of our God, upon His holy hill.
Mount Zion stands most beautiful, the joy of all the land!
The city of the mighty King, doth on her north side stand.
Within her palaces our God is for a refuge known.
For lo, the kings assembled, together they did come.
When they beheld it, all amazed, they fled in great dismay;
And being troubled at Thy sight, they thence did haste away.
As we have heard, we saw within the city of our God;
The city which the Lord of Hosts established evermore.
We of Thy loving kindness thought, in Thy most holy place;
O God according to Thy name, Thy praise fills all the earth!
In reality, Mount Zion, according to reasonable sources, is just a hill. Wikipedia also notes the term has become a “synecdoche for the Land of Israel”. Of which Worldwiders were the spiritual equivalent, or so we were instructed.
This hymn represents the returned kingdom of god, wherein a mighty city would be built, on Jerusalem’s holy hill. (Overlooking the fact that this same hill is holy to both the RCC, which was viewed by the WCG as being the great whore of Babylon, and to Judaic tradition, which has a synagogue and a Holocaust museum there.)
It is in this city that we (presumably sometime after relocating from the ruins of Petra), would be rulers over all who had ever lived or died, in the thousand-year-long Kingdom of God, where all people would be taught how to live truly by the Old Testament laws.
This thousand years of peace and instruction were to come to an end, with the Great White Throne Judgement, at which time any who did not welcome us as their new Old Testament overlords, faced a long walk off a short plank, into the dreaded Lake of Fire.
Notably, all those who had ever lived, and had been “called to the truth” but rejected it, over the years, would be resurrected during this Judgement, to face an immediate dunking in the fiery lake, do not pass go, do not collect your golden crown to sit at the right hand of god. A clear incentive for WCG members to not risk disfellowshipment.
Since “The Last Great Day” Holy Day represented the end of the thousand year kingdom of god, and the Great White Throne Judgement, this was a popular hymn to close this Feast day with. Getting technical about it, the Last Great Day was a separate festival from the Feast of Tabernacles, immediately following the last day of the eight-day festival of booths.
Tags: feast of tabernacles, kingdom of god, millennialism, white superiority, zionism
